Re: Globbing file name match function?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2022 13:11:04 +0200
> 
> I've been poking around for a couple of minutes to see whether we have a
> function to list files matching a regexp a la how a shell matches them.
> That is:
> 
> $ ls ~/src/emacs/*/lisp/abbrev.el
> /home/larsi/src/emacs/27.1/lisp/abbrev.el
> /home/larsi/src/emacs/bisect/lisp/abbrev.el
> /home/larsi/src/emacs/emacs-28/lisp/abbrev.el
> /home/larsi/src/emacs/foo/lisp/abbrev.el
> ...
> 
> This is with a glob, but ideally you'd be able to drop in a regexp
> anywhere in the file name.  Do we have that anywhere in Emacs?

ls-lisp.el does.  It converts a wildcard to regexp, and then uses
directory-files with MATCH set to the regexp.

Do you mean specifically a wildcard in the middle of a file name,
which stands for matching subdirectories?